This mass surveillance happened under Obama. There were murmurings of repealing/curtailing the constant and total surveillance of EVERYONE, facilitated by Prism at GCHQ, among other places. But it didn’t really happen.

Obama seemed to reassure people that it was being used judiciously. The man seems reasonable.

Not sure if that covers putting latent cyberbombs in Japan’s power-grid infrastructure (just in case, y’know) but whatever.

Toward the end Snowden posited that one of the reasons he felt compelled to go public was because there might come a time when the US has a new leader, or leadership, that thinks very differently.

One that might want to flip the switch and start combing America for people they just didn’t like the look of. For whatever reason they chose.

Hmmmmm.

That is happening now.

A week or two ago Newt Gingrich suggested reconvening The House of UnAmerican Activities.

Out loud. In Public. He’s not some lone wolf nutbag on the fringes of politics. He’ll probably end up with a Cabinet or Presidential Advisor position under Trump.